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C56 · Open · a plan for White

Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Yurdansky Attack

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1.e4e52.Nf3Nc63.d4exd44.Bc4Nf65.O-ONxe46.Re1d57.Bxd5Qxd58.Nc3Qa59.Nxe4Be610.Bg5h611.Bh4g512.Nf6+Ke713.b4
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Yurdansky Attack278 games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
Qf582%22841%
Nxb49.4%2640%
Qxb46.5%180%
Qb51.4%450%
Qb60.7%20%
Famous games in this line2 master games
Vakulienko, Vladlen (2360)Kiselev, Sergey (2445)1989½–½Hemstapat, Andrew (2130)Iniyan, P.. (2506)20200–1
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The Italian Game is in the Göttingen manuscript and Polerio's notebooks — chess players have been putting the bishop on c4 for more than four centuries. It fell out of top-level fashion for decades, then returned as a main weapon of Carlsen and Caruana, proving the oldest plans still bite.

Category
Open
First move
1.e4
ECO
C56
Line
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. Re1 d5 7. Bxd5 Qxd5 8. Nc3 Qa5 9. Nxe4 Be6 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bh4 g5 12. Nf6+ Ke7 13. b4
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